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Student Academic Misconduct

Student Academic misconduct is an academic violation that covers but not limited to plagiarism, misrepresentation, fabrication, facilitation and cheating in exams.

Apart from exam cheating and plagiarism, the decision on whether or not to treat an academic misconduct as a violation of the Code of Student Conduct, is at the discretion of the instructor.

19.1.1 Plagiarism

Plagiarism refers to representing another person’s words or ideas as one’s own in any academic exercise. The University of Dubai has zero tolerance towards plagiarism (i.e. any portion of a submitted document that contains plagiarism will lead to the appropriate penalty). Every academic submission made by a student should be a work of his own and also not be self-plagiarized. In all cases of plagiarism whether it is blatant or self-plagiarism, students will be held accountable for violation of academic integrity which also includes a penalty for their dishonesty.

19.1.2 Types of Plagiarism

  • Self: A student’s work reproduced more than once for the same course or for other courses without prior permission(s) of the instructor(s) involved is an act of plagiarism. Students should be very careful when quoting or paraphrasing (properly citing material).
  • Accidental: Every student is required to understand plagiarism as something similar to acts of fraud in the academic community. For this reason, it is the responsibility of the student to make sure his/her work has been checked and properly acknowledged.
  • Blatant: Student’s work reproduced from a fellow student or any other information source intentionally without proper acknowledgement is serious act of plagiarism. Students well of blatantly will lead to the strict penalty that can include non-grading of course work all the way to failing of the course as deemed by the faculty.

UD uses “Turnitin” software in Moodle to detect extent of similarity (through similarity index). Turnitin is used by both students and faculty to support in the learning process to understand the usage degree of the cited research material. The generated origination report from Moodle will support in the process.

For the above objective, Turnitin tool will be used by the faculty for all the graded assignments, exams, projects. The faculty has the right to make final decision in regards to the students’ grades work in determining the student work integrity based on the criteria and the faculty awareness of the student’s work level.

Students must ensure complying with UD plagiarism policy, repeated offenses receive higher penalties as stated in the table below:


Violation 		Sanction(s) (Refer to II.A)
i. Turnitin distinguishes similarity as matching text and plagiarism. Turnitin system will compare the paper to any matching text in Turnitin databases and highlight accordingly – even if the text was properly referenced. As to, identifying substantial non-original material (citation, quotes, reference) it is the faculty member duty to determine each student’s paper as intentional plagiarism by referring to originality report in Turnitin (instead of blindly depending on similarity index).

If such non-original material (citation, quotes, references) identified by the faculty member as “intentionally plagiarized and/or has improper/lack of citation in student’s work as in the origination report, then punitive action needs to be taken by the instructor.		 2, 6
ii. Paraphrasing (i.e., putting into one’s own words) a source’s text, without providing proper acknowledgment/citation. 1, 2
iii. Reproducing (without proper citation) any other form of work created by another person. 1, 2

Misrepresentation


Violation 		Sanction(s) (Refer to II.A)
i. Taking credit for work not done, such as taking credit for a team assignment without participating or contributing to the extent expected. 1, 2
ii. Multiple uses of a student’s own work, such as presenting the same, or substantially the same written work (or portion thereof), as part of the course requirement for more than one project or course, without the prior written permission of the instructor(s) involved. 1, 2

Fabrication

Fabrication refers to falsifying or misusing data in any academic exercise.


Violation 		Sanction(s) (Refer to II.A)
i. Falsifying data collected in the conduct of research. 1, 2
ii. Making up or presenting falsified data in papers, manuscripts, books or other documents submitted for publication or as course or degree requirements. 1, 2
iii. Making up a source as a citation in an assignment. 1, 2
iv. Citing a source that the student did not use or does not exist. 1
v. Falsifying material cited. 1, 2
vi. Attempting to deceive the instructor by altering and resubmitting for additional credit, assignments that have previously been graded and returned. 1, 2
vii. Falsifying, changing, or misusing academic records or any official University form regarding oneself or others. 4 &5
viii. Failing to be fully cooperative and truthful if one has direct knowledge of an alleged violation of academic integrity. 4 &5
ix. Making a false accusation regarding a violation of academic integrity or other. 5

Facilitation

Facilitation refers to knowingly or intentionally assisting any person in the commission of an academic integrity violation.


Violation 		Sanction(s) (Refer to II.A)
i. Giving another student one’s assignment or paper (or a portion thereof) to copy. 1,2
ii. Giving another student answers to an assignment. 1,2
iii. Passing information or answers to another student in an exam (or assignment), or passing information on exam/quiz content to students from other sections of the same course. 1,2

Exam Cheating


Violation 		Sanction(s) (Refer to II.A)
i. Talking/whispering during an exam; Communicating, or attempting to communicate, answers, hints or suggestions during an exam. 2 & 5
ii. Copying (or attempting to) from someone else’s exam. 2 & 5
iii. Using or possessing unauthorized notes, supplemental notes, or other aids (such as an electronic device that contains unauthorized information), during an exam. 2 &6
iv. Stealing, obtaining, possessing, or providing to another person (directly or through e-mail or Bluetooth or other device) an exam or portions of an exam, prior to or after administration of the exam. 3 & 6
v. Attempting to steal, or soliciting an exam or answer key. 5
vi. Sharing answers or collaborating on a take-home exam without explicit permission from the instructor. 2 & 5
vii. Attempting to deceive the instructor by altering and resubmitting for additional credit tests, quizzes, or exams that have previously been graded and returned. 2 & 5
viii. Arranging for another student to substitute for oneself during an examination session or in the completion of course work. 2 & 6
ix. Accessing unauthorized computer folders/drives during an exam 2 & 5